more of their humanity than merely their living alignments Such rare ghouls also retain some or all of intellect These unique few drift away from evil in the class levels they had in life, transferring those levels their pursuit of magical lore—while they still hunger onto their new undead forms The bulk of these Leng for dead flesh, many try their best to feed only on those ghouls have levels as arcane spellcasters or rogues, since who died naturally or willingly offer themselves up those who were once divine spellcasters, or otherwise to the carrion feast in return for favors While many religious in life, tend to be wholly devoted to gods of eventually succumb to the temptation to feed on fresh evil and decay kills in time, a rare few manage to maintain nonevil The madness and monstrosity lay in the figures in the foreground—for Pickman's morbid art was pre-eminently one of demoniac portraiture These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness —H.P Lovecraft, Pickman's Model 452